Gunnar Myrdal once said that criticism of the theory of underdevelopment leads inevitably to criticism of the system itself, and that
there is no room for "diplomacy" in social research. Professor Manuel
Maldonado-Denis has dealt a serious blow to those who have attempted to see Puerto Rican emigration within the "neutral" and
"diplomatic" arena of bourgeois social science. I am proud to have been
asked to translate this analysis.

I want to thank Louise Gross, compañera and secretary of the Oakes College Steno Pool of the University of California at Santa
Cruz, who, because she believed in this book, went beyond the call of
duty in preparing the final typed draft. I would also like to thank Steve
Cochran, compañero, student and compatriot, who helped with the
bibliography and tracked down the English sources used in the original
Spanish edition. Thanks also to the University of California at Santa
Cruz, whose research grant made possible my conferring with Professor Maldonado-Denis in Puerto Rico.

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